Tech thoughts by Bhavani

Month: May 2012

Intents are one of latest additions to the android phones and are available only on API level 15 of android phones (IcecreamSandwich). They are quite powerful and make the life of a developer a lot easier. Intents allow Android components to request functionality from other components of the Android system. For example an Activity can… Read More Android Intents

Most of the smart phones and a few feature phones these days have the touch screen support. When we tap on the touch screen of mobile device, we seldom realize, the time and effort spent by the developer in building the amazing apps. The apps seem so simple but usually, they are not. In the… Read More Gesture events in BREWMP

In one of my earlier posts, I had given the details of the process of configuring a webserver in linux. I had also mentioned enabling perl cgi and php. I would like to add a few more details along with examples in the present post. In the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf replace Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec… Read More To enable perl-cgi or php in linux webserver

Sampling is one of the most important steps in audio processing. Recently, lot of people have been asking me about the representation of the audio signals and sampling, so I thought it would be appropriate to pen down a few lines about the audio signal representation in the present post. Sampling of speech signals Speech… Read More Representation of Audio signals